Paul Rudd Quotes

When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.

I got into acting for the chance to be many different people and many different characters. I love hiding in a role and doing the research. If there is an opportunity to change my body, I will change my body. I'll slip in and disguise myself in a role. That is a really big treat for me.

I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else.

I just love to act. I like to get away, totally play a different character, someone you can get really involved in knowing. I've gotten really involved in some characters and written down little summaries of where they live and what their families are like.

That's why I enjoy acting: getting in the mind of someone else.

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

I never act my characters - I am them.

Ultimately, the idea of acting is to understand the people you're playing, and then where they're coming from is not so mystifying. You've got to detox a bit after, though.

As an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life.

Don't think for a moment that I'm really like any of the characters I've played. I'm not. That's why it's called 'acting'.

The beautiful thing about acting is that you can just dive into the character, strip yourself of everything, and just get in there and perfect your craft.

By being an actor, one can explore various personalities of a human being, be that person, behave and live that person's life, and then you are back to your normal life.

In acting, you have to pull from real-life situations, from people, to help develop a character.

Some actors can distance themselves from the parts they play, but I fall into the category who use bits of themselves.

When you are portraying somebody that has a very specific emotional weight, you feel like you're really starting to abandon your own body and go to someplace else.

If you have a very good concept of your character, you can snap into it.

You know what it is, when I'm playing a role sometimes, I just tend to stay in that role. It's easier to maintain. We just shot a pilot in a very thick American accent. I feel like the character lives in me. Of course, my family tease me about it.

Getting in and out of a character takes its own time for me.

I empty myself out and fill myself with the character. I would play a devil worshipper, and I would fill myself up with whatever devil worshippers believe. Then, as myself, I empty that out and become Nelsan.

Any decent actor knows you can't judge the character you're playing.

It's interesting what happens when you take on a role, I think. What happens to me - without sounding too spiritual or too hippy, I guess - what happens, most of the time, you do a lot of research, and you get into the character, and at a certain moment, it's like the character takes over.

When I'm playing any of my characters, I totally go into the realm of the character. That's when I'm able to come up with the most creative stuff, and I believe that's what connects with the audience.

I do enter into character on set, but I can step out of it.

In acting you have to not be yourself. It's like whatever character is put on, you have to just to turn into that person.

It becomes very easy as an actor to immerse yourself when you're in the real places.